Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, ? ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant ? celui qui scrute le fond de l'abysse, l'abysse le scrute ? son tour.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.

Jenny McCarthy

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

Ethel Waters

The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.

E. T. Trigg

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

Cory Lidle

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

Juno Temple

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Francis H. Bradley

The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

Edward Tufte

For they conquer who believe they can.

John Dryden

It always seems impossible until it is done.

Nelson Mandela